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Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Präsidium.[1][2] First attested in 1661.[3]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /prɛˈzɨ.djum/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɨdjum
  • Syllabification: pre‧zy‧dium

Noun edit

prezydium n (related adjective prezydialny, abbreviation prez.)

  1. (politics) presidium (multi-person elected management body of a larger collegial body)
  2. committee (group of people chosen to direct the proceedings of some official meeting)
  3. (obsolete) guard, watch (protective body)
  4. (obsolete) defensive castle

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Kashubian: prezydium

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), prezydium is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 70 times in news, 67 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 144 times, making it the 407th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “prezydium”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “prezydium”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  3. ^ Merkuriusz polski ordynaryjny[2] (in Polish), 1661, page 86
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “prezydium”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[3] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 488

Further reading edit